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2023/24: Sheff Utd currently on 9 points, Burnley on 11 points so technically could still equal it

2022/23: 26th December (Wolves)

2021/22: 23rd January (Burnley)

2020/21: 4th March (Sheffield United)

2019/20: 22nd December (Watford)

2018/19: 27th February (Huddersfield)

2017/18: 13th December (Swansea)

2016/17: 19th December (Sunderland)

2015/16: 18th January (Aston Villa)

2014/15: 29th December (Leicester)

2013/14: 26th December (Sunderland)

2012/13: 2nd January (QPR)

2011/12: 31st December (Blackburn)

2010/11: 27th November (Wolves and West Ham)

2009/10: 19th December (Portsmouth)

2008/9: 8th November (Spurs)

8 hours ago, Alpha said:

Credit to Parker too. Game plan was spot on. Took Wilders right hand away from him, tucked the chin, fought small, came up and under using Wilders height against him

Wilder always makes the most basic mistake of going back in straight lines. He only gets away with it because of his size. 

Joshua demolition job. Bullied Wallin. Easy peasy. 

Lol @ Miller. Lollolololol

He did, but it was based on knowing that Wilder simply doesn't have the footwork to deal with it. Any competent boxer would work out he was head down and either step to the right and side swipe him or uppercut him coming in. Amazing to see the impact the corners had last night, Andy Lee talked a masterclass between the rounds while Wilder was left deluded that he was somehow in control.

As for AJs next dance partner, Zhang is well placed to be interesting enough but gassy enough to suggest he won't be a twelve round threat. After last night Kabayel might be an option but isn't really a threat. Then he has to hope Usyk beats Fury and Tyson realises the only payday still in town is the AJ fight. If Usyk does as he promises and retire to play football after the Fury fight then that could end up being for the vacant titles. Coz boxing never lets us down does it?

As for Miller - I thought it was beyond comical that they apologized for his language. Anyone tuning in to watch a 300lb guy whack lumps out of his opponent is hardly going to be offended by the occasional f-bomb.

The most amusing element of the whole Wilder debacle was that he wanted to be known by his new nickname - Dr Sleep. Yup, that one will stick.

WIlder's corner were unbelievable, they never once pushed on their fighter when he was clearly losing round after round. Weird post fight interview from Wilder, I think I preferred him when he was blaming everything from the weight of his ring walk costume to the phase of the moon.

2 hours ago, Alpha said:

Bunce annoys the f out of me. 

Always been a much better writer than summariser - probably benefits from having an editor stripping out all the attempts to over ride his boxing knowledge with those faux contraversial "let's tell it as it is, and I don't care what others think" followed by something like "soft boiled eggs are nicer than hard boiled ones"

Blimey, that was some shot from Opiteia. If that isn't knockout of the night we're in for some fun.

56 minutes ago, richinspain said:

Yes, but are you Warne in or out? 🥷

I'm someone who would have got it big time wrong if I had been in Clowes shoes. After the Shrewsbury game I was openly calling for Warne to be gone, felt like he had lost the dressing room and was totally lost with a bunch of summer recruits that looked like they'd been drawn out of a tombola. I still don't quite understand what changed, really, but it sure has clicked. And that is why you should never listen to me, or pretty much anyone else who posts on forums. We haven't got a clue what we're on about.

21 hours ago, Crewton said:

The Hairy Bikers : Home for Christmas.

Park any cynicism you may have, because this is a genuinely affecting programme which marks Dave Myers recovery from cancer. Think Whitehouse and Mortimer with better food but the same vibe of one mate helping another through a crisis. Life affirming - and that's not a cliché in this case.

If a little tarnished by the knoweldge that he is (maybe was) a complete twonk of a bloke on set and in real life. I don't wish him ill but still.

Key themes that I find helpful:

1: I have no interest (or belief I am able) to change other people's point of view about anything - from football to anything else posted here or elsewhere on t'web. 

2: If I don't agree with what people say, that's fine. Least of all random profiles on a random forum.

3: If I am going to get stressed about some poster's view of a football match (that I don't even know they've actually seen) I probably need a lie down.

Merry Christmas y'all...

Who have Oxford City for in Boxing Day?

https://x.com/The_Forty_Four/status/1738508145389904078

4 hours ago, FindernRam said:

I think the BBC have a right nerve bigging up SPOTY given how little live sport they cover.

Then they compound it by having Lineker on it. 

Then they pick just six who we can vote for from an apparently woke agenda.

But the saddest thing, and its nothing to do with the BBC, is that when I spent a few idle minutes thinking about who I would have nominated I couldn't come up with anybody. As a nation we seem devoid of star quality winners. Even our top football teams are stuffed full of foreigners.

Someone's had a glass of Snowball

I wouldn't say there is advnce as such because, as others have suggested, you will need to be a different person at every stage. But I would say two things. First is that it goes so quickly, savour every single moment - even the tough ones. And second, when one stage is gone it is gone. As someone once said to me, there will be a day when you pick up your child and carry them in your arms for the last time. On the day that happens neither you nor they will know it will be the last time, but it will, and it will then be gone forever. So cherish it now.

12 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

The other advice I give to all new dads is that breast feeding is not a contraception! That’s how I ended up with number 2 and 3 exactly a year apart from each other. 

You could have just left her to feed the baby in peace?

Barmy decision, not only because Cooper has taken Forest from a ploddingly normal Championship team to one that isn't even among the favourites for relegation.

Santo has flopped at his last two roles, the last one being hardly in the cauldron of top level football. And, even all of that in hand, if you didn't have faith in your manager why did you give him quarter of a billion pounds to build a team. How much do you think Santo will now be asking for again?

It's just another dopey owner without a long term plan that likely will end with the club burdened with debt - we know better than most how this ends.

On 16/12/2023 at 13:36, Mucker1884 said:

Barker/Parrot/McCoist being the last trio I recall watching regularly

All I could see when reading this was 

Oh Barker, now she was the consumate professional, but if she walked into my pub and said "do you want to go home or away" I'd have to say "Barker, no!"

On 17/12/2023 at 12:56, Grumpy Git said:

I've said this many times before (and probably on here): anyone saying the BBC is rubbish has never lived or worked overseas pre-internet with only the local channels on the hotel TV!

BBC has no cash because like Council Tax, the government have both stopped them increasing the fee whilst absolutely slashing their grant.

But don't let those facts get in the way of a good 'woke' excuse.

Not sure calling cuts to public services (which the Beeb effectively is, for reasons you state) sits inside the definition of a 'woke' excuse. But hey, we blame the invisible enemy for everything else so why not?

My view on the Beeb, for what it's worth, is you know they get it about bang on when both the right and the left complain (which they do).

Mate of mine is a good friend of John Eustace - I can tell you with assurance he was close to getting that gig and wanted it (Eustace, not my mate)

1 hour ago, sage said:

There is a joke in there about ET's finger but i'll leave it 

She was a nice girl if you don't mind - which also likely explains why she stayed out of contact with me for 40 years.

11 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Nothing to see in the second two but ET? Come on, do yourself a favour...😀

I went out with a girl when I was sixteen and we agreed at the time we wouldn't watch ET (it was released that year) due to the endless media kerfuffle about it all. Couple of years ago we bumped into each other at a mutual friend's do (some forty years later). Neither of us has ever seen ET - it seems love dies but stubborn intransigence is forever....

The Never Ending Story - I was daunted by the prospect

On 16/12/2023 at 15:07, Comrade 86 said:

Nearly a quarter of a billion on that utter shower of shoyte!  They've not won in 12 games  🤣

While I don't have some sort of ingrained hatred of Forest (I was of the generation that saw them at their best and it's hard to be too much of a hater of seeing what Sir Brian did with them). But I do think it's verging on madness to see how close to the brink they now are - everything and above is dependent on them surviving in the top flight, the moment that stops (and it probably won't be this season but it will be some time in the next three or four) they are utterly hosed as a club. Genuinely, it's sad to see but they have gone down the road that has been trod so many times before and they are beyond the point of no return. To think they laughed at us signing Bradley Johnson!

Friend of mine is a Chelsea fan so posted this, but interesting to see that Forest have spent more than Liverpool since May 2022. 

Hard to see Billam Smith doing much in this division unless he starts moving his head. He was getting picked off at will by Masternak and you'd think McGuigan will have plenty to work on if he doesn't want to see his guy stopped by Riakporhe or the like.

Don't Worry Darling: with Harry Styles, Chris Pine and a couple more familar faces (Jonah from Veep for example). It's a bit of a cross between Edward Scissorhands, The Devil's Advocate, Mad Men and one other film that if I tell you what it is will spoil the plot. First twenty minutes is intriguing and, to be fair, almost keeps the pace up. The 'twist' is pretty darned obvious by the time you get there and there are a couple of holes in how the final scenes play out. But it's worth it, the soundtrack is probably the highlight.

Ross McLaren / 10

On 04/12/2023 at 13:05, Mostyn6 said:

the missus loves a Christmas film. I can take it or leave it, but do appreciate a good Christmas film. So with that mindset, we have been looking for Christmas movies that we haven't seen. The one mentioned above (Violent Night) was enjoyable, however, I should have quit whilst I was ahead:-

GENIE (SkyTV) : RIchard Curtis dross-fest where Melissa McCarthy is even less funny than her other unfunny roles and the undercover copper from Gangs of London. He is overworked and neglecting his family. The wife takes the daughter away from him just before Christmas, he then rubs a box and she pops out and gives him unlimited wishes. Nothing funny happens. Sickly boring ending where everything is happy ever after. Follows a formula that makes you sick that they produce this dross knowing idiots love Christmas and WILL watch it.

Conor Doyle/10

 

CANDY CANE LANE (Amazon Prime): Eddie Murphy plays a doting dad who loves Christmas, and is in competition with his neighbours to have the best Christmas decorations on his house. Signs a deal with a naughty Elf which will backfire if he doesnt complete a mission he doesn't know about. Intertwined with token nods to BLM/MOBO/Culture (for no real reason) and several attempts to give parenting messages and other things that don't really hit hard enough due to too many little nods. Absolute dross again, instantly forgettable and will probably not even remember watching it by Christmas!

Seb HInes/10